2003 Penny with a huge growth on it's back!

[My2CentsWorth]

I wouldn't even know how to start describing this one!!
Can you tell me what it is? Please!Thanks!!
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[coppercoins]

A piece of the die chipped out and left a depression. The result on the coin is a hump. These are becoming more common in recent years because they are evidently having trouble making the dies with proper quality. No premium value.

[My2CentsWorth]

What a shame though that it's worthless,kinda like us when we get old with a hump.lol

[Dick]

I have foumnd a few of those, my self. They are quite interesting.
Welcome ro the forum, in case I have forgotten,
Dick

[My2CentsWorth]

No Dick,you didn't forget but thanks again!!
I found a wheat penny in a roll the other day and it really look's like a piece of glass laid over the top it's so smooth and the thing is, you can make out a 191? in the date but not much of the last digit and i am curious because it's the first wheat I've ever came across that age?
It look's kinda like it should have been there but never was!! LoL

One more ??
Are red pennie's a keeper or what can you guy's tell me that won't take up "your" time,Ive seen a few here but one i got yesterday is dark Burgundy actually...all i know is it stand's out!

[coop]

Sounds like a struck through error. Grease probably. here are a few other examples.







I save the extreme ones for educational purposes or if I find the shocking enough. The rest I toss back for others to find!

[My2CentsWorth]

They do don't they,I posted a pic of mine in one of my post's but it looks alot like your 3rd big pic.the 1995?? i think!!
Hmmm,I never would have thought it!!
Funny thing is i never heard of error coins until about 2 month's ago,funny huh? Let alone that people "wanted them"But really, now i see these in these forums and i think to myself..gee whiz i always shunned them thinking they were demolished by a train or cluttered in a rust pile somewhere and now to learn alot of them looked that way brand new sure make's me think??
I've seen some I would have never even have thought were coins!!
My husband was a coin freak,Not a collector really but he'd stop an avalanche to grab a penny
and he'd throw them in his cigar box of junk and had a thing for Buffalo nickel's too...lol I'd just
nod and say to myself only....sheeesh!"
Oh if he see's me now i know what he's thinking!!

[My2CentsWorth]

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[coppercoins]

Coop - your 1981D is not struck through grease - it's a tapered planchet error. Significant difference between them!

[Dick]

Chuck, I thought they were two different coins, until you cakked attention to it. mentally flipping the lower one, makes it very clear. I hadn't heard of that term before. "tapered", yes, but not in coinage. I "assumed that the strip for the blanks would be of even thickness, ( having seen strips of steel made), and worked by the presses. It is standard, (by setting of the tollers), thiskness. I guess something might have fallen on part of the strip, and dented it.
Dick

[coop]

Chuck: I've never seen one before. I probably can't find it again though. But I will edit the image to show what it is. I always appreciate the heads up on something miss labeled.